Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to bring the news to you.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.

In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.