Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.