Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.