“To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things - this is emancipation, and this is the free man's worship.”

“One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.”

“Drunkenness is temporary suicide.”

“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.”

“The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense”

“A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.”

“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”