Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway
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.
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit.