To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools.

Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.

We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning of the speech, and he leaves before the end; and there are certain things which he hears but does not understand

Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.

If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude, immoral,vulgar, and senseless work Hamlet is. The whole thing is based on pagan vengeance; the only aim is to gather together as many effects as possible; there is no rhyme or reason about it.