The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.

He produced mainly three results: Hatred, Terror, Adoration.

The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.

I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily

If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream.

But however happy you are feeling, you can't talk with your mouth full of snow.

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.