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

The principal difference between love and hate is that love is a irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.

Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

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.

Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.