The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.

Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.

The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.

I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.