The worst of sleeping out of doors is that you wake up so dreadfully early. And when you wake up you have to get up because the ground is so hard you are uncomfortable. And it makes matters worse if there is nothing but apples for breakfast and you have had nothing but apples for supper the night before.

All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'

Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.

Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all.

One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.