The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.