Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!

All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.

The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking.