I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.

Music is the brandy of the damned.