In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right method to tell him to go on doubting, to doubt a little more, to doubt every day newer and wilder things in the universe, until at last, by some strange enlightenment, he may begin to doubt himself.

The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.

He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.

To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.

Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.