I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no ge

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments and associations, are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.