Why do men go to zoos?

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.

No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.

The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn to it for light upon all their problems, spiritual and secular.

After all, the world is not our handiwork, and we are not responsible for what goes on in it, save within very narrow limits.

A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.