Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating and tormenting themselves and one another. It was not this spring morning which they considered sacred and important, not the beauty of God's world, given to all creatures to enjoy - a beauty which inclines the heart to peace, to harmony and to love.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied on land and otherwise, which are collected by government from the subjects.

From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.