It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.

No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less

Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would.

The greatest thing in the world is for a man to be able to do something well, and say nothing about it.

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.