Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar, and at the same time, a more public and universal word, than is spoken in parlor or pulpit nowadays.

As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.

Have you not budged an inch, then? Such is the daily news. Its facts appear to float in the atmosphere.... We should wash ourselves clean of such news. Of what consequence, though our planet explode, if there is no character involved in the explosion? In health we have not the least curiosity about such events. We do not live for idle amusement. I would not run round a corner to see the world blow up.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence.

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.