The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.

Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here!

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.

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

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.