We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.

My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

In the winter, warmth stands for all virtue.

Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.