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

I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.

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

Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.

In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.