The human heart refuses To believe in a universe Without a purpose.

Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.