The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid

All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe.

A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It dreameth of a Palm tree Which far in the East alone, In the mournful silence standeth On its ridge of burning stone.