Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
God created sex. Priests created marriage.
Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion
War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.
Better is the enemy of good.
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.