There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn't.

There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.

There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.

There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.

The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.

. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.