Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience.

What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.

Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.

If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.

There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.

I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

I must cite an intrinsic condition of the universe. We set forth in any direction which seems convenient; each leads to the same place: the end of the universe.