"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."

"What ever lives obeys . . . he who cannot obey himself is commanded."

"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."

"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses."

"Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt."

"He whom you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster!"

"It's good to know there are people in the world much sicker then I am."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil."

"There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity."

"Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves."

"With love and patience, nothing is impossible."