I think it's one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.

I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.

If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.