Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong

You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is “I don’t know”.

It amuses me to weep for a dead man with eyes that once were his.

Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.