Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.

There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

Everything human is pathetic