Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.