I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.
As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
To say that a man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.