To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life.

In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.

Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.

Well-bred English people never have imagination.