When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

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.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.