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

Absence is the dark-room in which lovers develop negatives.

The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.

A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed.