No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.
Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.