Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So surely must the things we call evil and immorality disappear; so surely must man become perfect.

The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that by due skill an ill working humanity may be framed into well-working initiations. It is delusion. The defective natures of citizens will show themselves in bad acting of whatever social structure they are arranged into. There is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of laden instincts.

Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.