There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?

In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.

It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.