The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.

The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.

The most terrible of all things is terror.

Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.

Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.

Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.

Polite beggary is too common.