Born Friday 30 January 1846, died Thursday 18 September 1924
Occupation: Philosopher
Nationality: British
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.