If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so on. .... It is almost impossible to imagine a talker who sticks to the facts. Carried away by the sound of his own voice and the applause from the groundlings, he makes inevitably the jump from logic to mere rhetoric.

As for Lindbergh, another eminent servant of science, all he proved by his gaudy flight across the Atlantic was that God takes care of those who have been so fortunate as to come into the world foolish. Expressing skepticism that adventure does not necessarily contribute to scientific knowledge.

There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself.

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.