The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all men are just as easy to fool.

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea, however fundamental it may seem to be, for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable. To be sure, theology is always yielding a little to the progress of knowledge, and only a Holy Roller in the mountains of Tennessee would dare to preach today what the popes preached in the Thirteenth Century, but this yielding is always done grudgingly, and thus lingers a good while behind the event.

There is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it.

Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.

Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.

A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.