The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.

When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.