To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.