That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters - which grind on each other. Not only individuals but states have thus a confirmed dyspepsia.

The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.