To free a man from error is to give, and not to take away.
To be alone is the fate of all great minds.
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice; that only a madman could be guiltyof it, and other insipidities of the sam kind; or else they make the nonsensical remark that suicide is wrong, when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
The wise in all ages have always said the same things, and the fools, who at all times form the immense majority, have in their way too acted alike, and done just the opposite; and so it will continue.
The ultimate basis on which all our knowledge and science rest is the inexplicable.
The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.
The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming.
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.
The first forty years of life furnish the text, while the remaining thirty supply the commentary.