The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.
Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.
The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.
The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.
The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.
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.