Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

Remain true to the earth.

Art is the proper task of life.

When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God.

However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected.