The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

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.

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

Heaven is to be at peace with things.