Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian Businessman.

There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.

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

Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell me that they can't recall learning anything of any value in school. All that schoolmasters managed to accomplish with them was to test and determine the amount of knowledge that they had already acquired independently-and not infrequently the determination was made clumsily and inaccurately.

Hamlet has been played by 5,000 actors, no wonder he is crazy.