Oaths are the fossils of piety.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.

Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

The earth has music for those who listen.