One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.