The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all his life he will be nostalgic for the time when he did not know it's exigencies.