There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon in this kind of a nursery. Above all, I couldn't venture to attack the clergymen whom you mention, for I have their habits and live in the same glass house which they are occupying. I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Who are we to create a heaven and hell for ourselves, excluding animals and plants in the bargain, just because we have the power to rationalize?