“If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look f...” — Frederic William Farrar Quote

“If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.”

“Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.”

“Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.”

“I'm prepared to try to talk to a very beautiful girl. I learned a fantastic secret, which is that the most beautiful woman in the room is not being spoken to because she's too intimidating. They're not looking for somebody beautiful; they're looking for somebody to amuse them.”

“The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.”

“It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”