"The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him."

"To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography."

"I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty."

"Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on."

"My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests."

"The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism."

"The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it."

"To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful."

"To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman."

"To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say."

"Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end."

"Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors."

"It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases."

"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."

"The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk."

"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."

"Only the dead have seen the end of the war."

"Sanity is madness put to good use."

"By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all."

"Music is essentially useless, as is life."

"It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness."

"Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others."

"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject."

"The highest form of vanity is love of fame."

"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."

"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."

"The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise."

"Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace."

"The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it."

"A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted."

"Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world."

"Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit."

"For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep."

"Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it."

"Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies."

"Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace."

"Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them."

"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it."

"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds."

"The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art."

"Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited."

"I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads."

"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

"For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity."

"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."

"Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth."

"Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body."

"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud."

"Depression is rage spread thin."