Men create the gods after their own images.

That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

Happiness is activity.

Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of all things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed.