There are some desires that are not desirable.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.

All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants.