In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.

The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.

It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.

A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.

Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work.