The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.

Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

THERE are no wise few; for in all men rages the folly of the Fall. Take your strongest, happiest, handsomest, best born, best bred, best instructed men on earth and give them special power for half an hour and because they are men they will begin to [perform] badly.

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.