There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.

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

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

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.

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?

Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.

When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.