When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy mythology. Personally, of course, I believe in Santa Claus; but it is the season of forgiveness, and I will forgive others for not doing so.

You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.

The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.

Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.