A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.

It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods.

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.