Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.

Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.