People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

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

And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.

The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.