If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.

The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.