What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.

Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy

I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

There are still many people in America who regard depressions as acts of God. I think Keynes proved that the responsibility for these occurrences does not rest with Providence.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.