A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.