It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

"One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing."

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

"It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public."