I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.