Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom good maxims have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel, thrashed in and preached in.

Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."

Whoever knows how to take, to defend, the thing, to him belongs property.

Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).

Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.

Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in religion.

What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing.