Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.

It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.

We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.

To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.