Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.