Neckties strangle clear thinking.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.

We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.

Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.

How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements.

The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.