Love is cruel as the grave.

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

I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.

Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of its foes, and gives free passage to the sun-coursers with which it leaves those heavenly fields of light for the gross battlefields of earth.

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.

Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.