Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance

Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back.

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

If you count all your assets, you always show a profit

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

You aren’t really old until nothing is fun enough to make you forget the weather.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on...