The more I know people, the more I love my dog.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

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.

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.