I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.

The supreme adventure is being BORN

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.