False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

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.

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

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

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.

Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination.