...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.

It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

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

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.