I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.