Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.

The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.

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.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens and smiles on human life, which makes the desert blossom as the rose, and which glorifies the common things and common ways of earth. It made of this, the angel of life, a shape of sin and darkness ... Even in the unions which it reluctantly permitted, it degraded and dwarfed the passion which it could not entirely exclude, and permitted it coarsely to exist for the mere necessity of procreation.

Great men always have dogs.

Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.