Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.

Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.

The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.

Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.

Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.

I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed.

Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!