“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.”

“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.”

“What if this weren’t a hypothetical question?”

“No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.”