If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something)

If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.