We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.

A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.

Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.