Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.
acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Doubt is the father of invention.
Admiration: Our polite recognition of another man's resemblance to ourselves.
Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
Spring beckons! All things to the call respond the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
Peace: in international affairs a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.