Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

The true object of human life is play.