Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.