What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.

When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.

Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.