Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .

It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would turn out to be all for the best. It was the mysterious doctrine that selfishness would do the work of unselfishness.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.