Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
Another occupation might have been better.
The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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.
