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

Passion makes every detail important.

It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.

Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.

Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.