Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.

When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.

Speech is the small change of silence.

Chance works for us when we are good captains.

Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers.

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.