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.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.

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.

A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.

To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.

I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.