We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.

However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.