One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

Are you visiting women? Do not forget your whip

One is punished best for one's virtues.

Faith is the path of least resistance.

There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie.

One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching."