America is one long expectoration.

Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleance me in the great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.