He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

You," Madeline said, her voice hollow and wheezing, "are like a bad case of herpes, wizard. You're inconvenient, embarassing, no real threat, and you simply will not go away.

CASSIO: Dost thou hear, my honest friend?
CLOWN: No, I hear not your honest friend, I hear you.
CASSIO: Prithee, keep up thy quillets.

He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.