What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.

He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.