Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

Altogether too many sheep

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.