The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.

There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the decreased sensibility of our senses and our lack of full use of them. All human happiness is sensuous happiness.

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.

Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.

A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.