[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.