Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.

But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.

By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.

In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.