There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests.

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear. . .