Men forget everything; women remember everything.

Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.

Stolen sweets are best.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor.

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.

Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.

To a valet no man is a hero.

Every day you waste is one you can never make up.

When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis much to draw them thence, So sweet is zealous contemplation.

Wit is cultured insolence.

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

Good orators, when they are out, they will spit. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.

We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.

Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 7. the ministry of authority Jesus made authority in the fellowship dependent upon brotherly service (Mark 10:43). Genuine spiritual authority is to be found only where the ministry of hearing, helping, bearing, and proclaiming is carried out. Every cult of personality that emphasizes the distinguished qualities, virtues, and talents of another person, even though these be of an altogether spiritual nature, is worldly and has no place in the Christian community; indeed, it poisons the Christian community... Genuine authority realizes that it can exist only in the service of Him who alone has authority... The Church does not need brilliant personalities but faithful servants of Jesus and the brethren... Pastoral authority can be attained only by the servant of Jesus who seeks no power of his own, who himself is a brother among brothers to the authority of the Word.

In the under-wood and the over-wood There is murmur and trill this day, For every bird is in lyric mood, And the wind will have its way.

Time is the fire in which we burn.

If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.