We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.

Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.

The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

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

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.