All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.

Columbus gave the world another world.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.