There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .

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.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.