Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.