Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him...two.

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.