Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

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

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.

Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.