The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.
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.
No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.
Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.
Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.