A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.