Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man.

No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.

Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.

Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt - marvellous error! - That it was God I had here inside my heart.

Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.

My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.

Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.