Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

The best way to get your point across is to entertain.

Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.