Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.

The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.

All gods are better than their reputation.

Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.