Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

Faith is believing things you know aint true

No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.

But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.

Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.

We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go