Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both borrower and lender.

The priests of one religion never credit the miracles of another religion. Is this because priests instinctively know priests?

I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.

To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy.

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

[T]he blossom of benevolence, of charity, is the fairest flower, no matter whether it blooms by the side of a hovel, or bursts from a vine climbing the marble pillar of a palace. I respect no man because he is rich; I hold in contempt no man because he is poor.