Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made him talk or whether he loved conversation because it made him thirsty.

But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must content itself with moving, exciting and amusing the reader. ...I do not think that there is any (short story) that will give the reader that thrill, that rapture, that fruitful energy which great art can produce.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.