"Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men."

"Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law."

"The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass."

"I do press junkets and people will tell me what I've supposedly said in articles and I always disagree with myself. 'Why in the world would I say that?'"

"A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind."

"We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures."

"Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you."

"In one celebrated incident, 300 members of Church of the New Song requested $6000 worth of filet mignon and Harvey's Bristol Cream for a crucial religious ceremony at the federal prison in Atlanta."

"There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good."

"She had fortunately always her appetite for news. The pure flame of the disinterested burned in her cave of treasures as a lamp in a Byzantine vault."