There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.

Wisdom comes from disillusionment.

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.