But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.