For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.

The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.

I like being myself. Myself and nasty.

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.

What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!