A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.

We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go.

We are all beggars, each in his own way.

Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him.

There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer.