Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

To me life is simply an invitation to live.