The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.
The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe.
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.