I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.

Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.

Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.

Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.

Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.