The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.

God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.

This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I've even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.

To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.

All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.