When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.

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

Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.