When "everyone knows" that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see where that leads.

I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.