There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

Anatomy presupposes a corpse; psychology presupposes a world of corpses.

Man is a thought-adventurer.

No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.

In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.