A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John Calvin.

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles, wonders! It's the size that counts. They did it with lies and we do it with statistics: but it's all the same.

It may be those who do most, dream most.

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing