Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

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

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.