The most dangerous savages live in cities.
There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction.
That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.
Childhood has no necessary connection with age.
You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.
A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it.
An essential quality of beauty is aloofness.
Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud.
Some that will hold a creed unto martyrdom will not hold the truth against a sneering laugh
Facts are carpet-tacks under the pneumatic tires of theory
Sermons are like piecrust, the shorter the better
The best blood will sometimes get into a fool or a mosquito
