Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.

How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.