Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

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

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

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

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.