The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.

But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.