"Of Optimism I have said that "The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.""

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

"I will begin with the self-styled "Christian" party, who profess to base their morality on the New Testament. But whe…"

"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."

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

"There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us."

"It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninterestin…"

"We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but ch…"

"Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mer…"