Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.