Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.