What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time he piles a new one on top of his to threaten our light. There is no limit to this soundness but the sky.

You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

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