The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

Wherever there is power there is age.

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.