History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.