To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.

Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

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

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.