The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.