Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer’s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself.

No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.