Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.

ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.

Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?

Never encourage a man to cook breakfast; it cause him to wonder if women are necessary.

Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men.

Never pick up a stray kitten . . . unless you've already made up your mind to be owned by it.

There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory.