A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.

As nations improve, so do their gods.

With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits.

Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.

To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.