There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.

When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.

faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.

Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

Home is the best place to be sick in.

I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.