Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.

And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.

The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

America is the only country ever founded on a creed.