The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.

It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxicab or fry a pan of fish.

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.

The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.

When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.

A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious.