If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

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.

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.

The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?