People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.