Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.

A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.

There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.