A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.

They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.