Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

I am at two with nature.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his teacher.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.