Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.
Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification.
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.