You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.

The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.

I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.