Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.

Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that things aren't worse and of praising and thereby lifting the spirits of others.

To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.

Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!

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

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.