It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.

All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.

We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.