Life is very marvelous... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.

But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.

Everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken atwill from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness.

The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.

At all events, I do not mean to leave it unaltered.

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.