There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.

It is almost as safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country, i.e., against the environment in which God hath placed him, as it is to assume that his country is against the artist.

Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy.

Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.