“I was always embarresed by the words 'sacred,' 'glorious,' and 'sacrifice' and the expression 'in vain.' We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.”
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“New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness. A lot of people seem to be similar to the kid in school, which is doing a lot of things with no direct consequence to their joy, or their lives.”
“They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases.”
“I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers.”
“Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.”
“Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.”
“War never leaves where it found a nation.”
“Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.”
“Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.”
“Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.”
“I don't think you can get any more working class than me. Everyone seems posh to me.”
“I wept not — so to stone I grew within.”
“Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice.”
“As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.”
“Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.”
“London is a modern Babylon.”
“Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.”
“It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.”
“Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge”
“A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.”