The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him.

If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.

Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality