The Bible is literature, not dogma.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.

It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.

The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.