I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously

Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.