I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.

Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.

Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.

He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.

People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.