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.
There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.
The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
age is nothing but death that is conscious.
Why is youth so short and age so long?
There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.
Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age--the only perfectly beautiful things on earth--joyous, innocent, half divine--useless, say they who are wiser than God.
I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.
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.
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.
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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?
Excess always carries it's own retributions.
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.
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
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.
Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.
Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.
The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.
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