Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

If not for her truly sparkling personality, she would have been doomed.

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

There's this whole assumption that girls like bad boys, but I have to disagree; I think 'nice' will go a long way.

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

Never apologize, it's all part of the trick.

He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.

The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.

To speak the gospel skillfully without attempting to perform the gospel is a false proclamation of the gospel.