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.

When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the foundation the superstructure is to him merely a freak -- like the Flatiron building without any visible means of support -- something that ought to be arrested.

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

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.