They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.

He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.

Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.

I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.

The life that is demanding to be born is limitless. Nature is a spendthrift. Look at the fish and their millions of eggs. For that matter, look at you and me. In our loins are the possibilities of millions of lives. Could we but find time and opportunity and utilize the last bit and every bit of the unborn life that is in us, we could become the fathers of nations and populate continents.

To have a full stomach, to daze lazily in the sunshine--such things were remuneration in full for his adors and toils, while his ardors and toils were in themselves self-remunerative. They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself.

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.