The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal.