What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.

It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.