Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love.

Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.

Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.

The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity.

I can, therefore I am.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.