"Without music, life would be a mistake."

"The 'highest' states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy."

"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."

"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."

"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."

"If the belief [in Christianity] did not make us happy, it would not be believed: how little it must then be worth!"

"Prejudice is the Child of Ignorance."

"Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."

"How much I love every thing that is decided and open!"

"My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me."

"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature."

"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight."