It is not permissible to lie merely to save one's face. But it is sometimes permissible to lie to save another person's face.

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.

For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement.