Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of much evil there was still so good a thing as ale.

An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in the arts of fiction and drama that life itself is little more than a series of coincidences.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself

Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.’ – Book 3, Chapter 16

I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.

Truth is so often disconcerting.