Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.