The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated.

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the course of a year no matter how absurd that opinion might be. We see every day in politics, in business, in social life, large masses of people brought to embrace the most revolutionary ideas, sometimes within a few days. It is all a question of getting hold of them in the right way and working on their weak points.