Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda

Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the ferocity of the Hussite, of the Catholic, of the Puritan, of the Spaniard, of the Irish Orangeman and of the Irish Papist; it has divided families, alienated friends, lighted the torch of civil war, and borne the virgin and the greybeard to the burning pile, broken delicate limbs upon the wheel and wrung the souls and bodies of innocent creatures on the rack; all this it has done, and done in the name of God.

Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone

There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.

Fancy tortures more people than does reality