Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like; it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability |
Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both. |
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. |
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. |
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles. |
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount |
Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis. |
Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness. |
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions - and unwanted children living in misery |
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married |
Morality is not respectability. |
Morals being mostly only social habits and circumstantial necessities. |
Most people do not pray; they only beg. |
Must then Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination? |
My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately |