Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who get the most out of life.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

White founts falling in the courts of the sun, / And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book, and a tired man who wants a book to read.

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.