To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.