“Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.”

“Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a jest.”

“People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.”

“We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.”

“We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.”

“One sees more devils than vast hell can hold”

“This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.”

“As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.”