The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it may die in an hour of a single unwise word.

Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life; it has caused the natural passions and affections of it to be held as sins.

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.

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