Fear First Created The Gods.

Life Is Judged With All The Blindness Of Life Itself.

To Me, It Seems A Dreadful Indignity To Have A Soul Controlled By Geography.

To Delight In War Is A Merit In The Soldier, A Dangerous Quality In The Captain, And A Positive Crime In The Statesman.

Skepticism Is The Chastity Of The Intellect, And It Is Shameful To Surrender It Too Soon Or To The First Comer; There Is Nobility In Preserving It Coolly And Proudly Through Long Youth, Until At Last, In The Ripeness Of Instinct And Discretion, It Can Be Safely Exchanged For Fidelity And Happiness.

Oaths Are The Fossils Of Piety.