Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

In love, you pay as you leave.

The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .

If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.