We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.

It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.

When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.