A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.

Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.

Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.

Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.