Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself
The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest.
To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.
Abstract truth is the eye of reason.