The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming a divine right for the rulers: the Tsars, Sultans, Rajahs, Shahs and other heads of states.

The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.

When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.