We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.