When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.

It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.

Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.