Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.

For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.

Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!

In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.