Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

The great act of faith is when man decides that he is not God.

The reward of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

Conceit is just as natural a thing to human minds as a center is to a circle.

Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman.

We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare dwelling-place, we have adjusted ourselves to it, and made it tolerably comfortable for the little while we are to be confined in it.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.