Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.

Friendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive.

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.