Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

The two basic maxims of the so-called historical criticism are the postulate of the common and the axiom of the ordinary. Postulate of the common: everything really great, good, and beautiful, is improbable, since it is extraordinary and therefore at least suspect. Axiom of the ordinary: our conditions and environment must have existed everywhere, for they are really so natural.

Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.

A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.