We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.

Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent.

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.