Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.

Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.