Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
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.