Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.

Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.

Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.