Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.

It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.

Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.