That art is best which suggests most.
Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.
Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.
Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.
It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead.
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.