Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

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.

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

Great men have always had dogs.

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