One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.

There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.

Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.