It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.

I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

Never run after you own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun?

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.