I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create: for he is making an outline and a shape.

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.