Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.

Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.