It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.

Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.