The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.

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.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.

Science is organized knowledge.

Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.