Anytime you see a Hungarian, kick him. He'll know why. Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. It is a pleasure to mediocrity to have its superiors brought within range.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving.

The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.