Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.