The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.

One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.

The supreme adventure is being BORN

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.