The praise of injudicious friends frequently fosters bad mannerisms.

Years in themselves mean nothing. How we live them means everything.

No wars are more bitter than those undertaken in the name of religion.

Storehouses filled with merchandise will prove a better guarantee than arsenals bulging with ammunition.

I sometimes think that the prevalent use of external cosmetics eats out the internal brain if persisted in long enough.

There is no intolerance in the world so great as the intolerance of tolerance, and no bigotry so excessive as the bigotry of the image breaker. To praise the devil is second nature. To praise God is an education.

No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.