The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.

Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving.

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.

Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.