Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness