Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.

None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.

I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.

The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter.

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.