Friendship Is Such An Elastic Word. There

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.

I Have Known Men Who Have Been Sold And Bought A Hundred Times, Who Have Only Got Very Fat And Very Comfortable In The Process Of Exchange.

Fame Nowadays Is Little Else But Notoriety.

Familiarity Is A Magician That Is Cruel To Beauty But Kind To Ugliness.

Take Hope From The Heart Of Man, And You Make Him A Beast Of Prey.