One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Eclecticism – every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.