Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.

It is permissible with certain precautions to speak in print of coitus, but it is not permissible to employ the monosyllabic synonym for this word.

The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts while the dull are so certain.

Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.

The first dogma which I came to disbelieve was that of free will. It seemed to me that all notions of matter were determined by the laws of dynamics and could not therefore be influenced by human wills.