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

A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.

It is only doubt that creates.

Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.

Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

I know of no existing nation that deserves to live, and I know of very few individuals.