Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

Some countries you love. Some countries you hate. Canada is a country you worry about.

Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground—not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.