Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

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

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.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.

In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.

A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.