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.

If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?

There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.

We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in such disastrous experiments.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.