The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to be sincere...When it begins to exist in others it ceases to live in us, just as the child severs itself from its mother when it enters into its own existence.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself.