Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.