Be sure to choose what you believe and why you believe it, because if you don't choose your beliefs, you may be certain that some belief, and probably not a very credible one, will choose you.

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

No one needs a word processor if he has an efficient secretary.

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

Oh hearts! Nobody gets through life without a broken heart. The important thing is to break the heart so that when it mends it will be stronger than before.

The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.

If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creature s let him begin the long, solitary task of perfecting himself.