Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.

It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.