The Catholic must adopt the decision handed down to him; the Protestant must learn to decide for himself.

It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be maintained in the peaceful possession of what belongs to him.

The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.

Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life.

Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.

To reign by opinion, begin by trampling it under your feet.

Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.

Truth is no road to fortune.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

If you are not an asset for humanity then you are a liability for humanity.

Obsessing over something that has jarred your world is called coping.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as "selfish greed".

Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.

I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to take their true place, whatever it may be.

How easy it is to blame others for our unhappiness, but we are only unhappy when something other than Christ has become our life.

In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.

If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.