I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men believed that the earthwas flat, they were not credulous: they were using their common sense, and, if asked to prove that the earth was flat, would have said simply, "Look at it." Those who refuse to believe that it is round are exercising a wholesome skepticism.

If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?