Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.