I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

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.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

Only times and places, only names and ghosts.

People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.