The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.
I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.
A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.
There is no dunce like a mature dunce.
The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.