Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.

I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.