One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.

A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.

A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining oxygen is also an individual, an animal, and is alive. Recapitulation: the two individuals combined, constitute a third individual-and yet each continues to be an individual....here was mute Nature explaining the sublime mystery of the Trinity so luminously that even the commonest understanding could comprehend it, whereas many a trained master of words had labored to do it with speech and failed.

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.