We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
We are easily duped by those we love.
How easy love makes fools of us.
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.