Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.

Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay.

The great secret of happiness in love is to be glad that the other fellow married her.

All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been given to humanity by men who, when the hour came, turned from tap water to something with color in it, and more in it than mere oxygen and hydrogen.