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

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.

Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else has thought and felt on some points precisely as he has done, and therefore he should write it down.