Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.