Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.

Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many of the rich took to scepticism exactly as the poor took to drink; because it was a way out.

We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.

There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.

There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn't.