For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

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

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.