No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all.

There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.

The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.

When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.

The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.

In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.