Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.

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.

You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle