The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to be thrown about loosely, like small change; it is something to be cherished and hoarded and disbursed only when absolutely necessary. The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in Hell.

Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.

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

Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

Skin diseases are something doctors like, the patient neither dies nor gets well.