Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.
I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.
High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.
It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.
Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.