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

The worshiper is the father of the gods.

There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it.

There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton.

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

I devoured hot-dogs in Baltimore 'way back in 1886, and they were then very far from newfangled...They contained precisely the same rubber, indigestible pseudo-sausages that millions of Americans now eat, and they leaked the same flabby, puerile mustard. Their single point of difference lay in the fact that their covers were honest German Wecke made of wheat-flour baked to crispiness, and not the soggy rolls prevailing today, of ground acorns, plaster-of-Paris, flecks of bath-sponge, and atmospheric air all compact.

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.