Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining.

Judgment is forced upon us by experience.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.

May you have a lawsuit in which you know you are in the right

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.

A good laugh is sunshine in a house.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

That laugther costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.