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.
age is nothing but death that is conscious.
There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.
The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
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.
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
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.
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.
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.
Why is youth so short and age so long?
There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.
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.
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.
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?
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
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.
Excess always carries it's own retributions.
The Christian religion, outwardly and even in intention humble, does, without meaning it, teach man to regard himself as the most important of all created things. Man surveys the starry heavens and hears with his ears of the plurality of worlds; yet his religion bids him believe that his alone out of these innumerable spheres is the object of his master's love and sacrifice.
Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.
The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.
Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.
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