Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.