There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.

Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!