Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.

....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.

It's not as bad as it sounds.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: “Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.” Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.