It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

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

Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art.

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.

Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian.

Fancy tortures more people than does reality

Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!