Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.

I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten and cities perish. A lamp is lit and love flies away. An apple is eaten and the hope of God is gone.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

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.

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.