Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

Another occupation might have been better.

My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside... the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.

But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.