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.

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

A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.