If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.