The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.