The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars.

One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched.

When a woman says she won't, it's a good sign that she will. And when she says she will, it is an even better sign.

By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely nothing was uninteresting to him. His curiosity ranged from music to theology and from philosophy to history. He didn't simply know something about everything; he knew a great deal about everything.

Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.

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

The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority.