Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.

Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

God is the same everywhere.

How can one be well...when one suffers morally?

And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat.

It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict.