Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

What a glorious day!

Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.

I have very little patience with children.

Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!

If nobody can learn from the past, then there's no point in raking it up.

To live is often only to have a choice of several despairs.

I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams.

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine.

Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.

It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!