The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it myself until I read a book giving the reasons for it.

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.