The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?

I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.

Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.

Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.

humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle