I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men.

If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.

The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.

It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.

We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers, their mothers, and their brothers, to satisfy the brutal lusts of savage men. If there be a god, I pray him to write in his book, opposite my name, that I denied this lie for him.