We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.

Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

God created women only to tame men.

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.