There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.

If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.

THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

The only thing permanent is change.

A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback for two hours. An amusing lecture is as useful for health as the exercise of the body.

The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.

Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.