There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.