All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.

Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.