Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.
There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
I was going to sue for defamation of character, but then I realised I have no character.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Human excellence means nothing unless it works with the consent of God.
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.