The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

[There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man. ... [Or philosophy, or theology] ...There can be, without any question at all, as good higher mathematics about a turnip as about a man. But I do not think, though I speak in a manner somewhat tentative, that there could be as good a novel written about a turnip as a man.

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.