Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

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

Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.