There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession.

The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.