Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.

All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.