If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the Midianites. The official report deals only in masses, all the virgins, all the men, all the babies. all ´creatures that breathe,´ all houses. all cities. It gives you just one vast picture ...as far as the eye can reach, of charred ruins and storm-swept desolation... Would you expect this same conscienceless God, this moral bankrupt, to become a teacher of morals, of gentleness, of meekness, of righteousness, of purity?