Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else out of the passions of men except a political system that will work, and that there is nothing so pitilessly and unconsciously cruel as sincerity formulated into dogma.

Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.

Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.

A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.