Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.

Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.

There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?