Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins. |
Mauritius was made first, and then heaven; and that heaven was copied after Mauritius. |
Maybe it's not as bad as it sounds (when asked to comment on the music of Richard Wagner) |
Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side |
Methuselah lived to be 969 years old. You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime. |
Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born. |
Modesty died when clothes were born. |
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race -- the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions. |
Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil |
Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil |
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. |
Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals |
More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat. |
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. |
Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use |