Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.

[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.

There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.

Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.