There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.

The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.

Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.

It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.