If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly myriads of His creatures suffering unspeakable miseries--and besides this foresees how they are going to suffer during the remainder of their lives. One might as well say, "As unhappy as God."

It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.

A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.

Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They burn in me; and they keep multiplying; but now they can't ever be said. And besides, they would require a library-and a pen warmed up in hell.