A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.

Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.