If we cannot define stupidity, at least we can trace most human misfortunes and weaknesses to it. Its manifestations are legion, its symptoms are endless.

(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.

It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

Rockefeller made his money in oil, which he discovered at the bottom of wells. Oil was considered crude in those days, but so was Rockefeller. Now both are considered quite refined.

When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.