Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

All right, then, I'll go to hell.