Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth.

It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.

There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.