Who said “Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are…”?

“In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.”

“Purity of heart is to will one thing.”

“Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.”

“My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.”

“By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.”

“The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.”

“There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.”

“It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.”

“Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.”

“Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.”

“The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.”