There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.

O my prophetic soul! My uncle?

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.

The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves. . -Hubert Humphrey.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Clothe with life the weak intent, let me be the thing I meant.

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and pharisee and parable, tresspass and Babylon and covenant.

Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. "It is very small for its age," said Gnathaena.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Fallacies about Christianity must always be faced as deterrents to right living, and not merely as mistakes in the mind, for it is the effect they have on our actions which matters most. So soon as we abstract them from our lives and think of them only as faults in our mental machinery, we tend to embrace the greatest fallacy of all -- which is to think of Christianity as a way of looking at life instead of a way of changing it.

When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of.