The practice of utter sincerity towards other men would avail to no good end, if they were incapable of practising it towards their own minds. In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

Poet's food is love and fame.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist.

Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.