How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.

No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public

It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.