The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

When congress is in session no American is safe.

If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so.

It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.