To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.