“A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching”

“A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. ”

“I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things”

“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference”

“One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty”

“There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself”