I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

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

Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

Altruists, with thin, weak voices, denounce Christ as an egoist. Egoists (with even thinner and weaker voices) denounce Him as an altruist.

if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.