A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.

The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.