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.

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.

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.

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.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.