Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.

All wines are by their very nature full of reminiscence, the golden tears and red blood of summers that are gone.

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.