Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.