A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.

The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.