Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

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

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.