When the individual feels, the community reels.

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful -- if strenuously led -- as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.

Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.