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

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

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

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?