The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

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

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.