The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.

Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.