Living with a dog is easy- like living with an idealist.

A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.

Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.

The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.

It is only doubt that creates.

No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured by the thought of a state of existence in which it would live in a candy store and have two stomachs.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.... A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass: he is actually ill.