Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

There is no such thing as "best" in the world of individuals.

It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances.

There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents.

Mystery and innocence are not akin.

Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.