If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.

There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.

All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.