This blessed gift of smoking!

once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.

Strength is the outcome of need.

There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character - meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India.