Haste is of the devil. Slowness is of God.

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 nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.

No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.

The instant I reach Heaven, I'm going to speak to God very sharply.

The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women, and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men.

All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will be full of bitterness, and that most of it will be caused by religion. I count Prohibition as a part of religion, for it has surely become so in the United States. The Prohibitionists, seeing all their other arguments destroyed by the logic of events, have fallen back upon the mystical doctrine that God is somehow on their side, and that opposing them thus takes on the character of blasphemy.