To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.