All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.

You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.