“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”

“The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.”

“It is our business to go as we are impelled.”

“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But ever...”

“The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to...”

“Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.”

“Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.”

“The mind is full of monstrous, hybrid, unmanageable emotions. That the age of the earth is 3,000,000,000 years; that human life lasts but a second; that the capacity of the human mind is nev...”