It's so damned humiliating.

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.