He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exert….

I do not really like vacations. I much prefer an occasional day off when I do not feel like working. When I am confronted with a whole week in which ….

When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing whi….

Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitu….

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages..

Not enough attention is paid to the negative side of fashion. Great effort is exerted to make people look smart, but somebody should face the fact th….

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it..

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that c….

A man who recognizes no God is probably placing an inordinate value on himself..

As the tragic writer rids us of what is petty and ignoble in our nature, so also the humorist rids us of what is cautious, calculating, and priggish-….

The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books.

This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are indeed mere supporting ch….

We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity..

Be sure to choose what you believe and why you believe it, because if you don't choose your beliefs, you may be certain that some belief, and probabl….

In too many modern churches there is no emphasis on theology at all. There is a kind of justification by works or by keeping up with modern trends an….

Though thousands of people indulge themselves in it regularly, and even develop a taste for it, there is no doubt in my mind (and that of scientists ….

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs..

The US, for historical reasons, mistrusts the concept of a welfare state, and this mistrust shows itself nakedly under present US government, which c….

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor..

The first principle, when you don't know anything about the subject of a thesis, is to let the candidate talk, nodding now and then with an ambiguous….

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructiv….