It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.

The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.

My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.

In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.

My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.

If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.