We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

We all live in the past, because there is nothing else to live in. To live in the present is like proposing to sit on a pin. It is too minute, it is too slight a support, it is too uncomfortable a posture, and it is of necessity followed immediately by totally different experiences, analogous to those of jumping up with a yell.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.