Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas arise, so to speak,by the mind's inertia and conceptions of things by its activity. Ideas are mental sediment; conceived things are mental growths.
The living have never shown me how to live.
Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.