Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

And what is a man without energy? Nothing - nothing at all.