The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.