Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

Most people don't need to be taught, they need only to be reminded

If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.

Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.

Love is the great conqueror of lust.