There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

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

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got.