There is no possibility whatsoever of reconciling science and theology, at least in Christendom. Either Jesus arose from the dead or He didn't. If he did, then Christianity becomes plausible; if He did not, then it is sheer nonsense. I defy any genuine scientists to say that he believes in the Resurrection, or indeed in any other cardinal dogma of the Christian system.

Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.

Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

Psychotherapy is the theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow and is certainly a damn fool.

The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle - a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be applied to him, he would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy, astrology or cannibalism.

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.