We shall at all times chance upon men of recondite acquirements, but whose qualifications, from the incommunicative and inactive habits of their owners, are as utterly useless to others as though the possessors had them not.

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.