No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.

That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.

They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.