In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.

Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.

I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.

Worship is transcendent wonder.