Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?

A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.