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.

A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it.

God is the same everywhere.

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

And where love ends, hate begins

There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.

There is no genius where there is not simplicity.