It is only doubt that creates.

Don't tell me what delusion he entertains regarding God, or what mountebank he follows in politics, or what he springs from, or what he submits to from his wife. Simply tell me how he makes his living. It is the safest and surest of all known tests. A man who gets his board and lodging on this ball in an ignominious way is inevitably an ignominious man.

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him

One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.

There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.

Anyhow, the hole in the donut is at least digestible.

The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.