For Gold Is Tried In The Fire

The Constant Demands Of The Heart And The Belly Can Allow Man Only An Incidental Indulgence In The Pleasures Of The Eye And The Understanding.

Nature In Denying Us Perennial Youth Has At Least Invited Us To Become Unselfish And Noble.

Music Is Essentially Useless, As Is Life.

To Call War The Soil Of Courage And Virtue Is Like Calling Debauchery The Soil Of Love.

My Atheism, Like That Of Spinoza, Is True Piety Towards The Universe And Denies Only Gods Fashioned By Men In Their Own Image, To Be Servants Of Their Human Interests.