It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable.

There is never a rational reason for a man to rejoice that a certain pretty girl exists and that he has found her. The experience, however, is universal.

It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!

Facts are facts! And if they're impossible, they're still facts!

Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them.

The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the cooperation of others in enterprises those others did not think of first.

The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels.