I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope says so and it will be dismissed without further examination. But preface your remark with "I think I heard somewhere," or, try but fail to remember the name of some professor who might have said "such-and-such," and it will be immediately accepted as an unshakable fact.

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.