Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.