Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

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

Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain.

The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.