Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

Of all devils let loose in the world there is no devil like devoted love.

There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.

whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.

No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.

What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.