Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.

Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.

A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.