Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.

The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.

For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale.

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the Unitarians do, that he could attack them better with a greater approximation to plain theism. What distinguishes his heresy from anything like an Arian or Albigensian heresy is that, as it sprang up on the borders of Christendom, it could spread outwards to a barbaric world.