Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

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.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

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

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.