There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.

Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.

The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.

age is nothing but death that is conscious.

Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.

the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled. Its highest attainment is the reduction of mankind to clockwork. In its atmosphere all those finer and more delicate liberties, which require treatment and spacious expansion, inevitably dry up and perish. The State requires a taxpaying machine in which there is no hitch, an exchequer in which there is never a deficit, and a public, monotonous, obedient, colorless, spiritless, moving humbly like a flock of sheep along a straight high road between two walls.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.