There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.