Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails.
A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.
Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.
War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.
Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.