There is nothing in religion but fiction.

The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.