There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.

One does not know - cannot know - the best that is in one.

That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion---

To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.

The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.