It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.

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

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.