In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man.

The saviors of the world, society's last hope.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?