The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.

Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.

The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so he sent for a clergyman and asked him, "Where is the best place to go to?" He was undecided about it. So the minister told him that each place had its advantages--heaven for climate, and hell for society.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing it. They adhere without intention, and without foreseeing what is to result. When they see the result they marvel at the monster ball and wonder how the contriving of it came to be originally thought out and planned. Whereas there was no such planning, there was only a law: the ball once started, all the circumstances that happened to lie in its path would help to build it, in spite of themselves.