No sane man will dance.

All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.

Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

All great men are partially inspired.

I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.