The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.

It was equally imperative that this chain of reactions should always tend to dampen, to die out. It must not build up, or the uranium mass would explode within a time interval too short to be measured by any means whatsoever. Nor would there be anyone left to measure it.

It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers. And enormously higher than that of professors.

No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.

The early worm deserves the bird.

He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.

The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.