What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

The Christian religion, outwardly and even in intention humble, does, without meaning it, teach man to regard himself as the most important of all created things. Man surveys the starry heavens and hears with his ears of the plurality of worlds; yet his religion bids him believe that his alone out of these innumerable spheres is the object of his master's love and sacrifice.

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda

A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.

It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.

for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?