To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.