I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.

There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke.

They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.