"It takes 15,000 nuts to hold a car together, but only one to spread it all over the highway."

"Violence is a tool of the ignorant."

"What you see is what you get."

"Funny is an attitude."

"The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down."

"The devil made me do it."

"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil."

"No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence."

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

"I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin."

"In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene."

"I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up."