“The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.”

“It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.”

“It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.”

“The less I needed the better I felt.”

“Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.”

“Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.”