A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.

Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.

The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.

The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.

Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.