I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

The true object of human life is play.

There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn't.

And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.

The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .

Adventure is the champagne of life.