I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.
Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.
The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.
Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.