None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.