The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now