A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.

The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.

It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.

Better than the rest of us, they [the Jews] sensed what was ahead for their people.

Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite.

The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.

There are no ugly cigars, only ugly smokers.