Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business, and, besides, could not be done. The line between honesty and dishonesty is a narrow, shifting one and usually lets those get by that are the most subtle and already have more than they can use.

Great wealth often curses all who touch it.

No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.

The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

I am sure of very little, and I shouldn't be surprised if those things were wrong.

...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked story they were doomed to hell? Can anyone with intelligence really believe that a child born today should be doomed because the snake tempted Eve and Eve tempted Adam? To believe that is not God-worship; it is devil-worship.