A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.

God cures and the doctor sends the bill.

How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!

Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.