Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.

Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us

Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.

Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.