Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in such disastrous experiments.

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