Petty laws breed great crimes.
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.
We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.
Why is youth so short and age so long?
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
age is nothing but death that is conscious.
Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life; it has caused the natural passions and affections of it to be held as sins.
I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.
It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.
There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.
Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.
Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian.
The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.
for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?
The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
Excess always carries it's own retributions.
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the ferocity of the Hussite, of the Catholic, of the Puritan, of the Spaniard, of the Irish Orangeman and of the Irish Papist; it has divided families, alienated friends, lighted the torch of civil war, and borne the virgin and the greybeard to the burning pile, broken delicate limbs upon the wheel and wrung the souls and bodies of innocent creatures on the rack; all this it has done, and done in the name of God.
There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.
Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.
In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of the barbarian and the pagan, and endowed these with what appeared a divine authority.
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