There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

To eat is human, to digest, divine

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.