To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned.
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
Sanity is madness put to good use.
The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
There is nothing impossible in the existence of the supernatural: its existence seems to me decidedly probable.
If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.
Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.