When I think of anything properly describable as a beautiful idea, it is always in the form of music. I have written and printed probably 10,000,000 words in English but all the same I shall die an inarticulate man, for my best ideas beset me in a language I know only vaguely and speak only as a child.

The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.

I well recall my horror when I heard for the first time, of a journalist who had laid in a pair of what were then called bicycle pants and taken to golf; it was as if I had encountered a studhorse with his hair done up in frizzes, and pink bowknots peeking out of them. It seemed, in some vague way, ignominious, and even a bit indelicate.

Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals

Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.

It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.

The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous.