Stupidity Is Nature's Favorite Resource For Preserving

A Highly Developed Moral Nature Joined To An Undeveloped Intellectual Nature, An Undeveloped Artistic Nature, And A Very Limited Religious Nature, Is Of Necessity Repulsive. It Represents A Bit Of Human Nature A Good Bit, Of Course, But A Bit Only In Disproportionate, Unnatural And Revolting Prominence.

The Best Security For People's Doing Their Duty Is That They Should Not Know Anything Else To Do.

Civilized Ages Inherit The Human Nature Which Was Victorious In Barbarous Ages, And That Nature Is, In Many Respects, Not At All Suited To Civilized Circumstances.

It Is Often Said That Men Are Ruled By Their Imaginations; But It Would Be Truer To Say They Are Governed By The Weakness Of Their Imaginations.

So Long As There Are Earnest Believers In The World, They Will Always Wish To Punish Opinions, Even If Their Judgment Tells Them It Is Unwise And Their Conscience That It Is Wrong.