Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.

If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator.

Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.

How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.