We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.

Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.

Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.