After all, the world is not our handiwork, and we are not responsible for what goes on in it, save within very narrow limits.

The effect of every sort of New Deal is to increase and prosper the criminal class. It teaches precisely what all professional criminals believe, to wit, that, it is neither virtuous nor necessary to suffer and to do without.

Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

The book of Genesis, a farrago of nonsense so wholly absurd that even Sunday-school scholars have to be threatened with Hell to make them accept it.

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The first is that, when there is a choice, the milder drink is always the better-not merely the safer but the better. The second is that no really enlightened drinker ever takes a drink at a time when he has any work to do. There is, of course, more to it than this; but these are sufficient for the beginner, and even the virtuoso never outgrows them.

For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.