Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.