If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.

It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists who have settled to the billionth of a millimetre every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Not for worlds would I question the precise accuracy of these calculations or the existence of electrons (whatever they may be). The fate of Joan is a warning to me against such heresy.