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

Roughly speaking, there are three kinds of people in the world…the division follows lines of real psychological cleavage. I do not offer it lightly. It has been the fruit of more than eighteen minutes of earnest reflection and research.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

You say you are a poet of law; I saw you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not comets and earthquakes on the night you appeared in this garden

Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.