It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.