Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

Man's most serious activity is play.

Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.