The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.

Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.

For Pastrasche was their alpha and omega; their treasury and granary; their store of gold and wand of wealth; their bread-winner and minister; their only friend and comforter. ... Pastrasche was their dog.

Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.

Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.

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.

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.