It's a good world if you don't weaken.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

They think my mother's ashes are marijuana.

With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed.

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

It's a pity people pick and choose what they learn from the Bible.