For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.
I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.
What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.
Fear first created the gods.