Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

There is nothing in religion but fiction.