We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.

A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

I told you this would happen. But, no, you had to go for the buffet, didn't you?

The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch - the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything.