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.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.