Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.

Evil is a necessary part of the order of the universe.

The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For my part, I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed, and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think that any survival of my my consciousness apart from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself.

Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.