Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

History would be a wonderful thing – if it were only true.

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to pick up the twenty, and split them all. Then he lost his temper, scattered the peas in all directions and ran away

Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.

Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy is, and will be, the tragedy of the bedroom.