If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.
I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.
Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.
Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.