Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never sti…

That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.