The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

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

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

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.