Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.

In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.