Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

We shall not cease from exploration

It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius.

To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.