You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

Without work men are utterly undone

To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.

I never was in such a horrid office . . . It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long, is it?

Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes - not yet, anyhow.

If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions.