The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.