Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.

Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a glance and are not used to seeking for first principles. Those, on the other hand, who are accustomed to reason from first principles do not understand matters of feeling at all, because they look for first principles and are unable to comprehend at a glance.

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

Love has no age as it is always renewing itself.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.