I am for religion, against religions.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.

The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.