You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

No Englishman is ever fairly beaten

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.