Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

Beware of long arguments and long beards.