Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her

A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.