... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings.

Where there is real love one wants to go to church first.

domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health.

The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.

Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.