Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.

Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.