A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.

America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape.

Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.

To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.