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

To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse

I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.

Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.

If the average man is made in God's image, then a man such as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God, and so God may be jealous of him, and eager to see his superiority perish with his bodily frame.