When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.

Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.

as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.

For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.