The only sin is stupidity.

He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression.

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.