Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

When you catch an adjective, kill it.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.