Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

All human rules are more or less idiotic.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.

That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters.