I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts; and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.

When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.