A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.