A healthy nature needs no God or immortality

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger.

It is play and only play that makes man complete.