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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or... →
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth... →
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
There is no bore like a clever bore.
A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.