All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.

No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.

Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.

There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.

He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.