"I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much more of it."

"We are all a little mad. Those of us who are able to laugh at our own madness are sane enough."

"A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation."

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

"I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and…"