The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.

Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil.

Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable

The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.