Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.

A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.

Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.