It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.