If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.

One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.

Experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing, and hearing the significant thing, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and coordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.

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

The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes