Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.

A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.

The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.