All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.