Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?

Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?