Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls.

The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.

The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.