Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of each of us would some day depend upon our winning or losing a game of chess. Do you not think that we should all consider it to be our primary duty to learn at least the names of the pieces and how to position them on the chessboard?

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

I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.

The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.