Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

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

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

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