Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.

why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.

For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.

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.

Man's most serious activity is play.

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.