For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.