The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.