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

Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.

For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.

The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible