By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.