A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus but we do not on that account value him less.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

It's the people who try to be clever who never are, the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.

In everyone's life at some time our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Of all vices drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

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