The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals
The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.
There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.