Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

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

Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.

Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one.

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.