There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.