Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.

There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.

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.

No social stability without individual stability.

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.

Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to organize and exploit distractions, to make of them, because of their economic importance, the core and vital center of human life, to idealize them as the highest manifestations of mental activity. Ours is an age of systematized irrelevances, and the imbecile within us has become one of the Titans, upon whose shoulders rests the weight of the social and economic system