A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.