"By harming a horse, you decrease his excellence. Thus, by harming a person, you decrease their excellence."

"Men say that we ought not to enquire into the supreme God and the nature of the universe, nor busy ourselves in searching out the causes of things, and that such enquiries are impious; whereas the very opposite is the truth."

"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand."

"Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service."

"Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know."

"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income."

"There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in his soul with the outward beauty of form, corresponding and harmonizing with the former, because the same great pattern enters both."

"Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding."

"Must not all things at last be swallowed up in Death?"

"It is impossible to improve the world if first the man does not improve."