Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them