The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.

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.

I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.

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