"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."
"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."
"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."
"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible"
"Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced."
"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."