There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?

Life is a constant process of dying.

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.