Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.