Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the least support for the establishing of an objective truth. Here the ways of men divide. If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, have faith. If you want to be a disciple of truth, then search.

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?

If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.

We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.

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.

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.