Work makes a callus against grief.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

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

An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.