Brigands demand your money or your life women require both.
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns...
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.
We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.
It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.
Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it-torn up to irrecoverable tatters.
The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us like the Kingdom of Heaven rather than without.
What runs through a person like water through a sieve.
It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony.