It is a great bond to dislike the same things.

Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.