The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.

The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

I am nothing and should be everything.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.