Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul's boundless needs.

The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure.

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.