The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.

There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.

The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight-and that, also, can shatter the world.

He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

People were always asking for good sound proofs; doubt springs eternal in the human breast, even in countries where the Inquisition can read your very thoughts in your eyes.