Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.

Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.