Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.