The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

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.

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

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.