Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.