Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs a shudder through the nether empire; and new emissaries are trained with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap and hoodwink and handcuff him.

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.