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

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any loss of equilibrium.

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.