Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live.

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.

Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.