...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We have been placed in this world under certain conditions and for specific purposes. But a suicide opposes the purpose of his creator; he arrives in the other world as one who has deserted his post; he must be looked upon as a rebel against God. God is our owner; we are his property; his providence works for our good.

Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely worse than non-existence?

Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.

[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.