Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid. They know one thing to excess; they know nothing else. Pursuing facts too doggedly and unimaginatively, they miss all the charming things that are not facts. ... Too much learning, like too little learning, is an unpleasant and dangerous thing.

Psychotherapy is the theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow and is certainly a damn fool.

Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.

The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.

Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity.