Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.

It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in the principles of morals. Yet philosophers have arranged their moral system entirely independent of this. What an extraordinary blindness!

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.