If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe.

Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

As the stars are the glory of the sky, so great men are the glory of their country, yea, of the whole earth. The hearts of great men are the stars of earth; and doubtless when one looks down from above upon our planet, these hearts are seen to send forth, a silvery light just like the stars of heaven.

Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.