The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

The temple is holy because it is not for sale.

See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back.

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.