The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

Adam was the luckiest man in the world. He had no mother-in-law.

Jesus died to save men - a small thing for an immortal to do - and didn't save many, anyway. But if he had been damned for the race, that would have been act of a size proper to a god, and would have saved the whole race.

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.

I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.