The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet's tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.