The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.

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

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children for a picnic on a doubtful day, they will demand a dogmatic answer as to whether it will be fine or wet, and be disappointed in you when you cannot be sure.

Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions; do this whole-heartedly and with conviction, and you will become one of the prophets of your age.

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.

There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes.