Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.

An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.

The truth hurts, but silence kills.

The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned