Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.

If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.

To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.