I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

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

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

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

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.