The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom.

One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.

No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.

Tis well when we dare not do a thing we think is not good and fair; but not so well when we think a thing not good and fair because we dare not do it.

I saw not till now what sin brings with it - that we must tread others underfoot.

the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the disinclinations of the flesh, its indolence and sluggishness, our tendency to become creatures of habit.

All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.