God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.

I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.

You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.