To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

The supreme adventure is being BORN

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .

There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn't.

Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.