A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

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

Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.

Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.

What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth? --"Wanda

Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.