Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.

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

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.