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.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

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.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.