Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.