Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

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?

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.

Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.