There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.