The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape.

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.