The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.

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.

I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.