Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur.

Jesus died to save men - a small thing for an immortal to do - and didn't save many, anyway. But if he had been damned for the race, that would have been act of a size proper to a god, and would have saved the whole race.

Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.

Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.

Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.

If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.