Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else

The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.