The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.

Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.

When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation.

Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.

Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.

All movements go too far.

If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.