You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them in one day when they were again needed. Therefore it was an odd idea to save specimens of them for eleven months in the ark, whilst aware that eight persons could not feed or water them by any human possibility. If they were to be preserved by miracle, the ark was not necessary - to let them swim would have answered the purpose and been more indubitably miraculous.

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.