Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.

There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.

That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.