When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.