Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.