Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene