This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.

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.

When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.

Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?