There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general and when only its most significant features are emphasised, is really a tragedy; but gone throug…

Ultimately, death must triumph, for by birth it has already become our lot and it plays with its prey only for a while before swallowing it up. However, we con…

The less a man is forced to come into contact with others, the better off he is.

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to sup…

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be...

For any eye is an evil eye That looks in onto a mood apart.