But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

Man must endure his going hence.

To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it.

Above all else , the devil can not stand to be mocked.

I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.