The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.

When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact.

We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.