advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it.

Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and when he turns his back on his own suffering, he denies the very laws of his being and closes the door on everything that can ever make him great.

It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul.

every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.

Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort.