It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.

If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.