Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but divined.

Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.

To know what everyone knows is to know nothing.

Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.