I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself

Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella

There was once a Hindu sage, who sat down on the banks of the Ganges and thought for seventy years about the millennium. Just as he arrived at the solution and was putting it into verse, a mosquito stung him and he forgot it again at once.