One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in the ongoing march of entropy.

Everyone belongs to everyone else.

A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh air, he will have to overcome certain physical repugnance before he can bring himself to put those principles into practice.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves.

Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.