A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.

All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.