Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.