Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

In every serious doctrine of the destiny of men, there is some trace of the doctrine of the equality of men. But the capitalist really depends on some religion of inequality. The capitalist must somehow distinguish himself from human kind; he must be obviously above it or he would be obviously below it.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.