A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the earth.

War hath no fury like a non-combatant.

If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it.

To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.

A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them.

I look upon every day to be lost in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Strike said "Huh" again, thinking about betrayal, about how everything and everybody were just so much smoke.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.

Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.

Anything I learned was just work hard, just keep working and don't worry about the outside stuff. Whatever happens will happen.

Demons lie behind much of the world's pagan worship systems.

After all, Bill Clinton is the guy that signed welfare reform.

In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded.