"When nothing is sure, everything is possible."

"Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated."

"The people are that part of the state that does now know what it wants."

"(Of Jesus): 'A parish demogogue.'"

"Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves."

"Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!"

"Isn't it funny that anything the Supreme Court says is right?"

"What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain."

"I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away."

"As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless."

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."

"No, I haven't read the New Testament, but I read the Old Testament and liked it very, very much."