Excess always carries its own retribution.
There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.
Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.
Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.
Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest.
There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.