The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.