Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.

To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.

Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.