“A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.”

“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.”

“If you don’t know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues’ initials on ’em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.”

“The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.”

“The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.”

“Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.”

“I have a new philosophy. I’m only going to dread one day at a time.”

“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”

“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”

“A musicologist is a man who can read music but can’t hear it.”