Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

There are no boring subjects, only disinterested minds.

But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it particularly nasty.

A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.