The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.

It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.

Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.

Columbus gave the world another world.

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