Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness

Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.