In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

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

Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.