Standing on your dignity makes you shorter.
All myths are alike; but each truth is truthful in its own way.
As Man learns, so should men be taught.
Western man worships bluesmen the same way the ancient Egyptians worshipped cats.
The late 19th century was nearer in thought to the Romans than to us.
Everything you hear about polite company seems calculated to drive you into the arms of the impolite.
Imagination, without a problem to work at, is dull. It does almost nothing but graft characteristics of one thing onto another; centaurs, gorgons, mermaids, and unicorns are its typical products.
Grievances are often not merely nursed but cherished, and a great many people, deprived of theirs, would be nothing at all.
Enforced unanimity about important matters provokes violent disagreements over trivia.
The first rule of lying is never deviate from the facts.