Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.