"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."

"It is a subtle truth that the greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."

"It is a humble truth that art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."

"I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

"It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution."