Mere facts are for children only. As they begin to point towards conclusions they become food for men.

To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

Մարդիկ կարծում եմ, որ շատ ծիծաղելի է, երբ հիմարը չի կարողանում նույն բաներն իրենց պես անել: