We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.

In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.