And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything

A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage.

This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy mythology. Personally, of course, I believe in Santa Claus; but it is the season of forgiveness, and I will forgive others for not doing so.

The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.