Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.

Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.

He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.