My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.

If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all.

The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top to bottom the whole system is a fraud, all of us know it, laborers and capitalists alike, and all of us are consenting parties to it.

I want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.