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.

Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.

In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .

Government is essentially immoral. The State employs evil weapons to subjugate evil, and is alike contaminated by the objects with which it deals, and the means by which it works.

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.