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

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.

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

Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing.

Women have a genius for love; men can only learn the art indifferently.

In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.

What a miserable world!--trouble if we love, and trouble if we do not love.