Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, Thou shalt make no graven image.

The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.

A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.

Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.